The Arctic territory has issued a 30-year mining permit to a Danish-French consortium.

Greenland has allowed a Danish-French consortium to mine a rock which is key to the production of aluminum.

The permit granted to Greenland Anorthosite Mining (GAM) to extract anorthosite follows interest in the Arctic territory from Donald Trump in acquiring the island.

GAM, which is backed by French company Jean Boulle Group and real estate investment firms bodies from Denmark and Greenland, was granted a 30-year permit, Reuters reported.

  • hefejefe@lemm.eeEnglish
    36·
    10 days ago

    I would be applauding more if I wasn’t so embarrassed to be American right now.

    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      10 days ago

      don’t be embarrassed to be an american. be proud. let that pride show. you’ve got one of the most beautiful countries on the planet. fight for her.

  • Sludgehammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    10 days ago

    It’s almost like repeatedly bullying and threatening a nation makes them less likely cut a deal with you. Weird.

    • D_C@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      9 days ago

      You just don’t understand the fart of the deal.

      Whoops, I meant art of the steal.

      Oh, ffs. I meant Angry Old Orange Rapist TurdNugget is a fucking imbecile. Phew, finally got there in the end.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      Isn’t Greenland just part of Denmark? Why would Europeans doing mineral exploration in Europe hurt America?

      I mean, would Alaska’s governor opening up more of the wildlife refugee for US industrial exploitation be a “blow to Olaf Schultz”?

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    10 days ago

    Greenland has allowed a Danish-French consortium to mine a rock which is key to the production of aluminum.

    It’s called aluminium.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorthosite

      The primary economic value of anorthosite bodies is the titanium-bearing oxide ilmenite. However, some Proterozoic anorthosite bodies have large amounts of labradorite, which is quarried for its value as both a gemstone and a building material. Archean anorthosites, because they are aluminium-rich, have large amounts of aluminium substituting for silicon; a few of these bodies are mined as ores of aluminium

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          Aluminium is found on Earth primarily in rocks in the crust, where it is the third-most abundant element, after oxygen and silicon, rather than in the mantle, and virtually never as the free metal. It is obtained industrially by mining bauxite, a sedimentary rock rich in aluminium minerals.

          But these guys are getting it from anorthosite, which is an interesting variation of industrial trends.

          • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            10 days ago

            Oh, you responded to the comment saying it’s aluminium, not aluminum, so I thought you were referring to that.